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SODALITY OF OUR LADY

HINTS AND HELPS FOR THOSE IN CHARGE

BY
FATHER ELDER MULLAN, S.J.
AUTHOR AND COMPILER OF
“THE BOOK OF THE CHILDREN OF mary

THE sole aim of this little book is to be useful. The plan is as follows: —The General Statutes, which are given first, are the basis of the whole. The remainder of the book comprises twenty-eight chapters in five parts. 

1. The first part presents general information and aids. This includes an outline of the Church Law on these bodies, and directions for applying it in their establishment. 
2. The second part considers the Sodality already in existence, and, after describing the character of the body, proposes general ways of maintaining its successful action. 
3. The third part deals with the spiritual life of the members and with matters that touch its various occasions and manifestations. Here belong the exercises of piety, individual and collective, and the works of zeal. 
4. The fourth part has to do with the less frequent Sodality events, treating them in the order of their frequency. Some hints are added as to members no longer active. 
5. The fifth part consists of a chapter of personal suggestions for the one in charge of the Sodality.

 As to the sources. The General Statutes are a careful translation from the official document. The Points from Church Law have been drawn from Beringer's invaluable work on Indulgences, and from various works on Canon Law. The practical suggestions, which form the main part of the book, are largely the result of repeated experiments made by many directors, sub-directors, and directresses. 

The hints and helps cannot, of course, all be turned to use everywhere. Many things that are possible in one Sodality cannot be done in another. The circumstances have always to be measured. But when one looks about and considers, one often finds much possible and even easy which had been thought so difficult as to be out of the question. Besides, it is very often true that where there is a will there is a way. It will be understood that this little book is meant for sub-directors and directresses as well as priest-directors. The last of these titles has oftenest been used for convenience. 

The good will to lead their Sodalists on to what is best and highest is abundant in Sodality directors, sub-directors, and directresses. It was the hope of somehow stimulating this good will and giving it new objects to work on that led the author, or rather compiler, to put this book together. 

ELDER MULLAN, S. J. 

WOODSTOCK COLLEGE. 

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